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... That there shall be on the one side and the other
a perpetual Oblivion, Amnesty, or Pardon of all that has been committed
since the beginning of these Troubles, in what place, or what manner soever
the Hostilitys have been practis’d, in such a manner, that no body, under
any pretext whatsoever, shall practice any Acts of Hostility, entertain
any Enmity, or cause any Trouble to each other; neither as to Persons,
Effects and Securitys, neither of themselves or by others, neither privately
nor openly, neither directly nor indirectly, neither under the colour of
Right, nor by the way of Deed, either within or without the extent of the
Empire, notwithstanding all Covenants made before to the contrary: That
they shall not act, or permit to be acted, any wrong or injury to any whatsoever;
but that all that has pass’d on the one side, and the other, as well before
as during the War, in Words, Writings, and Outrageous Actions, in Violences,
Hostilitys, Damages and Expences, without any respect to Persons or Things,
shall be entirely abolish’d in such a manner that all that might be demanded
of, or pretended to, by each other on that behalf, shall be bury’d in eternal
Oblivion. ...
... Finally, That all and each of the Officers, as
well Military Men as Counsellors and Gownmen, and Ecclesiasticks of what
degree they may be, who have serv’d the one or other Party among the Allies,
or among their Adherents, let it be in the Gown, or with the Sword, from
the highest to the lowest, without any distinction or exception, with their
Wives, Children, Heirs, Successors, Servants, as well concerning their
Lives as Estates, shall be restor’d by all Partys in the State of Life,
Honour, Renown, Liberty of Conscience, Rights and Privileges, which they
enjoy’d before the abovesaid Disorders; that no prejudice shall be done
to their Effects and Persons, that no Action or accusation shall be enter’d
against them; and that further, no Punishment be inflicted on them, or
they to bear any damage under what pretence soever: And all this shall
have its full effect in respect to those who are not Subjects or Vassals
of his Imperial Majesty, or of the House of Austria. ...
... As for the rest, Law and Justice shall be administer’d
in Bohemia, and in all the other Hereditary Provinces of the Emperor, without
any respect; as to the Catholicks, so also to the Subjects, Creditors,
Heirs, or private Persons, who shall be of the Confession of Augsburg,
if they have any Pretensions, and enter or prosecute any Actions to obtain
Justice. ...
... That the very Places, Citys, Towns, Boroughs,
Villages, Castles, Fortresses and Forts which have been possess’d and retain’d,
as well in the Kingdom of Bohemia, and other Countrys of the Empire and
Hereditary Dominions of the House of Austria, as in the other Circles of
the Empire, by one or the other Army, or have been surrender’d by Composition;
shall be restor’d without delay to their former and lawful Possessors and
Lords, whether they be mediately or immediately States of the Empire, Ecclesiastical
or Secular, comprehending therein also the free Nobility of the Empire:
and they shall be left at their own free disposal, either according to
Right and Custom, or according to the Force this present Treaty ought to
have, notwithstanding all Donations, Infeoffments, Concessions (except
they have been made by the free-will of some State) Bonds for redeeming
of Prisoners, or to prevent Burnings and Pillages, or such other like Titles
acquir’d to the prejudice of the former and lawful Masters and Possessors.
Let also all Contracts and Bargains, and all Exceptions contrary to the
said Restitution cease, all which are to be esteem’d void; saving nevertheless
such things as have been otherwise agreed on in the precedent Articles
touching the Satisfaction to made to his most Christian Majesty, as also
some Concessions and equivalent Compensations granted to the Electors and
Princes of the Empire. That neither the Mention of the Catholick King,
nor Quality of the Duke of Lorain given to Duke Charles in the Treaty between
the Emperor and Swedeland, and much less the Title of Landgrave of Alsace,
given to the Emperor, shall be any prejudice to the most Christian King.
That also which has been agreed touching the Satisfaction to be made to
the Swedish Troops, shall have no effect in respect to his Majesty. ...
... In the Name of the one and the other Bench, M.
Marc Ottoh of Strasburg, M. John James Wolff of Ratisbon, M. David Gloxinius
of Lubeck, and M. Lewis Christopher Kres of Kressenstein, all Syndick Senators,
Counsellors and Advocates of the Republick of Noremberg; who with their
proper Hands and Seals have sign’d and seal’d this present Treaty of Peace,
and which said Deputys of the several Orders have engag’d to procure the
Ratifications of their Superiors in the prefix’d time, and in the manner
it has been covenanted, leaving the liberty to the other Plenipotentiarys
of States to sign it, if they think it convenient, and send for the Ratifications
of their Superiors: And that on condition that by the Subscription of the
abovesaid Ambassadors and Deputys, all and every one of the other States
who shall abstain from signing and ratifying the present Treaty, shall
be no less oblig’d to maintain and observe what is contain’d in this present
Treaty of Pacification, than if they had subscrib’d and ratify’d it; and
no Protestation or Contradiction of the Council of Direction in the Roman
Empire shall be valid, or receiv’d in respect to the Subscription and said
Deputys have made. ...